Roosevelt Third Term Drive Dominates Convention
At Chicago July 16 delegates hear calls to renominate Franklin D. Roosevelt as labor leader Perkins announces a break from tradition. Rep. Arthur Mitchell and Mrs. Thomas F. McAllister bolster the third term push while undecided about formal nomination. Bankhead opens sessions and Farley prepares the farewell keynote as convention winds through platform talks and speeches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Stadium
Roosevelt
Hopkins
Perkins
Arthur Mitchell
Illinois
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Thomas F. McAllister
National Committee
United States of America
Senator Barkley
D.-Ky
C.S.T
Labor
Federation of Ilinois Democratic Women’s Clubs
William D. Bankhead
Democratic National Committee
Kansas Industries Bid for National Defense Purchases
Topeka July 16 a list of 150 Kansas industries qualified to bid on government national defense purchases has been filed with the war department in Washington. Secretary Rolla A. Clymer says a supplementary list is being sent at once and full data on all industries will be forwarded by Friday. The material is gathered by the state planning board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Clymer
Commission
Washington
Kansas
R. H. Rhoads
J. C. Nichols
National Defense Commission
Rhoads
Stearman Aircraft Company
Wichita
U. S
Clyde M. Reed
Development Commission
German Plan Delayed Nazi Maritime Incident in England
Dispatch from Bern reports Swiss-based diplomats hearing Germany planned a large naval attack aimed at England, using ships from several nations and coastwise routes. High command opposing the original July plan cited danger. a modified plan could be launched Friday night if weather allows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilelm Keitel
Hitler
Fuehrer
von Brachitsch
Keitel
Would Promote a Fight Wichita Klan July 16
A Wichita syndicate led by Louis Lev and the Wichita Beacon publisher pledged 100000 to back a Dempsey comeback bout here. The proposed opponent would be a former champion from Gene Tunney Max Baer James J Braddock or Jess Willard with Jack Kearns as promoter. Dempsey indicated he was ready for another fight at once.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
Klan
Jack Dempsey
Louis Levand
Wichita Beacon
Gene Tunney
Max Baer
James J. Braddock
Jess Willard
Jack Kearns
Dempsey
Ani
Kearns
Ambassador Bullitt departs Lisbon by clipper plane
United States ambassador to France William C Bullitt and Princess Elizabeth former Empress Zita of Austria Hungary left Lisbon port today aboard a clipper plane bound for New York. The party travels after a stay in Portugal on their international voyage en route to the United States.
Soil based insurance plan outlined at chamber luncheon
Lawrence Norton, Finney county farmer and Kansas head of the federal crop insurance program, spoke at the Eldridge hotel luncheon. He argued soil is the nation’s capital and warned many farms lack profitable soil. he cited wheat as a unstable cash crop and described how the ever normal grainary plan uses yield and premium rates to hold wheat off markets during high production years and pay farmers in low years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Lawrence Norton
Finney County
Kansas
Eldridge Hotel
Norton
America
AAA
Douglas County
United States
Authoritarian France to Copy Nazi Youth Training Vichy
France plans to train its youth to build health and morals from infancy along lines used in Nazi Germany. Jean Ybarnegarv, minister of family and health, said Germany’s win on the battlefield stemmed from practical rational education of youth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vichy
France
Nazi Germany
Jean Ybarnegarv
Platform Committee May Weigh Anti Third Term Plank
The Democratic platform committee may consider a plank opposing a third term for any president. Senator McCarran of Nevada indicated a draft on aid to Great Britain is under study while others push for foreign policy stances. Pepper and Montana Senator Galyer urge explicit aid for Britain or a convention verdict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
McCarren
Nevada
Great Britain
McCarran
Icome
Platform Committee
Wheeler
Western
Americas
Pepper
Resolutions Committee
British Lay Mines Off Italy and Bomb Germany
British navy reportedly laid new minefields around Italian waters as part of a tightened blockade. In the past 48 hours Royal Air Force missions struck 22 German airfields and facilities in Belgium, Holland, Germany, and Austria, with fires and explosions. At least 12 German stations went off air, signaling widespread raids. Germany’s retaliatory bombing of Britain appeared to slow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Mediterranean
Admiralty
Italy
Britain
Germany
Air Ministry
Belgium
Holland
Imany
Bremen
Galsenkirchen
Hamburg
Cologne
Munich
Leipzig
Berlin
Breslau
Frankfurt
Saarbrucken
Vienna
Brussels
Hilversum
Strasbourg
British Isles
England
Roosevelt hints third term stance to be announced in Chicago
President Roosevelt told reporters a decision on a third term would be announced in Chicago tonight by Senator Barkley of Kentucky, chairman of the Democratic convention. He said Barkley would speak after his convention address and stressed defense commission reports may carry weight equal to convention news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Chicago
Barkley
D-Ky
Mr. Roosevelt
National Defense Commission
Moe
Youth to Hollywood contract for 12 year old Robert Kelly
Robert Kelly a 12 year old junior high student ready to sign a $200 weekly contract in Hollywood. Wilbur Roberts, a nun on his grandfather, reports the development. Kelly went to California with his grandmother after school to enroll in Meglin Movie school as his parents plan to join him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Kelly
Hollywood
Wilbur Roberts
California
Stell
Kelly
Meglin
C. E. Kelly
Robert
Charles M. Robertson
Lawrence
Stark Accepts President's Backing in Vice Presidential Bid
Missouri Governor Lloyd C. Stark gave approval to a Stark for vice president campaign on July 16 as his floor manager predicted nomination on the third ballot. Stark said he would let nature take its course and not announce. Bob George of Lebo, Kan., leads floor campaign. Opposed by Sen. Bernett and Champ Clark, Missouri delegates expect Stark to win few votes on the first ballot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Lloyd C. Stark
Missouri
Nature
Stark
Bob George
Lebo
Kan
Sen
Bernett
Champ Clark
Harry Woodring
Clark
Busy Week on Hill Features a Full Campus Calendar
A lively summer session unfolds with lectures by visiting speakers and dances on campus. Tonight at 7 30 a street dance uses barricades on a Mississippi street between Fowler Grove and the anatomy building. A teaching position workshop and a billboard advertising lecture by L A Roblee and Donald W McKay highlight tomorrow’s events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
Fowler Grove
Felix Ullrich
Union Building
L. A. Roblee
General Outdoor Advertising Company
Advertising Club
Fraser Hall
Donald W. McKay
Eastern New Mexico ‘College
McKay
National Congress of Parents and Teachers
Greenhall
School of Fine Arts
Karl Krueger
Kansas City Philharmonic
A. Austin Harding
University of Illinois
Harding
Krueger
Windsors Plan to Fly to the Bahama Islands
A Reuters dispatch from Lisbon reports the duke and duchess of Windsor booked passage by clipper to New York and will fly to the Bahamas where the duke will be governor general. They are expected to leave Lisbon this week with a quick transfer in New York and minimal layover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Reuters
Dispatch
Lisbon
Duke and Duchess of Windsor
New York
Bahamas
Tiswag
US opposes closing key wartime routes to China
Washington July 16 The state department announced US opposition to closing world trade arteries like the Burma road and the French Indo China railway that carry China’s war supplies. Japan had demanded Britain close the Burma route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Department
United States
Burma
China
Japan
Great Britain
100 Acre Field Grows Carlson Hybrid Seed Near Lawrence
A 12 member detasseling crew works in a 100 acre Derby area field west of Lawrence to produce Carlson Hybrid seed for Audubon Iowa. The project, run by George Donaldson and William Bahnmaier, partners with Derby Grain and distributes via Carlson seeds to about 140 Lawrence area farmers. Russ Dixon of Carlson notes rapid growth of hybrid seed corn in eastern Kansas and foresees a possible regional processing plant in the Kaw valley within a year or two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Derby Farms
Lawrence
Carlson Hybrid Corn Company
Audubon
Carlson’s
George Donaldson
William Bahnmaier
Derby Grain Company
Tom Smart
Stork
Carlson
Derby
Locust Street
Russ Dixon
Carlson Company
Kansas
Dixon
Kaw Valley
New Conspiracy Charge Filed on Pendergast
Pendergast surrendered to U S marshal Henry L Dilllngham on a federal conspiracy to obstruct justice and defraud the government. Bonds of 3000 each were set for two grand jury indictments returned last Saturday naming R Emmet O Malley and A L McCormack. The case stems from the 1935 Missouri fire insurance rate dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Tom Pendergast
Henry L. Dillingham
United States
Charles H. Thompson
U. S
R. Emmet O'Malley
A. L. McCormack
St. Louis
Missouri
O’malley
McCormack
Germans In Air Forays Hit English Ports And Airfields
Berlin reported renewed air raids on England targeting airports harbors and factories. Three merchant ships totaling 18 000 tons were sunk in the English Channel while a submarine commander added 23 600 tons to U boat losses. German fliers observed fires after bombing Pembroke St Athan Plymouth Bicester Cardiff Brighton and Yeovil air factory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
England
High Command
English Channel
British Isles
Pembroke
St. Athan
Plymouth
Bicester
Cardiff
Brighton
Yeovil
Britain Mulls Sales Tax in War Budget
London July 16 Prime Minister Churchill ally Clement Attlee announced in the house of commons that a special war budget will be introduced next Tuesday and is expected to include a sales tax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
London
Clement R. Attlee
Churchill
House of Commons
Japanese Cabinet Quits Under Army Pressure
Tokyo July 16 Premier Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai handed his cabinet’s resignation to Emperor Hirohito under army pressure to enforce Japan’s new East Asia order. Prince Fumimaro Konoye or War Minister General Shunroku Hata expected to form a new government to consolidate gains and oppose Western powers inclding the United States in the east.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Mitsumasa Yonai
Hirohito
Japan
East Asia
Fumimaro Honoye
Shunroku Hata
Yorai
United States
Domei
Yonai
Willkie for President Club Forms in Lawrence
A Lawrence Willkie for President club forms with a Monday 8 p.m. meeting in the county courtroom to organize. Local supporters gathered signatures for a telegram to the Kansas delegation urging vote for Willkie, one of the first such groups in the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willkie
Lawrence
Kansas
Alf M. Landon
Ore
Independence
Saenz studies U S note on protectorate over European possessions
In Santiago July 16 Foreign Minister Cristobal Saenz said he is studying a U S note on establishing a protectorate over European possessions in the Americas. Washington indicated the United States is surveying regional attitudes as preliminaries to the Inter American Conference opening in Havana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santiago
Chile
Cristobal Saenz
United States
Central
South America
Washington
Havana
Nazis Ready Festive Return for Troops
Berlin reports that Germany expects success against Britain with plans to welcome returning Nazi troops. Grandstands and loudspeakers rise on Unter den Linden and similar preparations spread to other cities as authorities poised for celebrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Jienst Aus Deutschland
Germany
Britain
Unter den Linden
Stock Market Report
The index average for sixty stocks rose to 41.7 yesterday from 41.2, marking a modest gain amid ordinary trading. Specific movers and company names are not listed in the readable text.
Hitler weighs last offer to Britain to end war
Diplomatic circles report Berlin preparing a speech within days offering Britain a European settlement and return of colonies seized after World War I. Count Ciano to Berlin to confer as Mussolini’s envoy. Britain possibly to act as mediator among gold standard nations in a postwar economic realignment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
British Isles
Rome
Hitler
Berlin
Britain
Reichstag
Galeazo Ciano
Mussolini
Germany
Europe
Tax Levy Set for Lawrence In Budget Discussion
The Ways and Means Committee tentatively set a 1941 tax levy of 12.8502 mills for Lawrence during a budget and levy meeting with most Council members present. The proposed levy is 0.0339 mill lower than 1930 and 0.712 mill below the current year, based on a $14,900,007 valuation and about $191,506 in revenue. An operating levy of 7.9775 mills was derived after deducting the bond and interest levy of 4.8727 mills, showing a slight drop from 1940 but an increase from 1939.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City of
Lawrence
Ways and Means
Council
I. F. ‘Eberhart
Cuy
J. W. Stone
Felow
IML
Mills
Mi Mills
Bae
Saimeet Pamnivelsocennecatrees Ls
Atdale Ne
General LS
Wseeeeree
Weather outlook for Kansas: light rain and cool breezes
Topeka reports scattered showers mainly in western and central counties with El Dorado receiving 1.28 inches. Forecaster S D Flora says the moisture helps row crops while a high pressure system brings cool breezes and little further rain. Temperatures near average to slightly above with some areas near the century mark tomorrow afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Shly
Kansas
S. D. Flora
ElDorado
Great Lakes
Colorado
Florence
Winfield
McPherson
Russell
Concordia
Hanover
Ness City
Hill City
Dresden
St. Francis
Elkhart
Raids on Fifth Column Agencies in Argentina
Reports from Apostoles in Formosa say 25 German residents were arrested during raids on suspected fifth column groups. Eight remained in custody as the national gendarmerie searched homes and Nazi meeting places, seizing arms ammunition and propaganda pamphlets with German victory propaganda.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buenos Aires
Buch Heads The Elks Grand Exalted Ruler elected at Elks convention
Houston July 16 Pie Joseph G Buch of Trenton New Jersey was elected grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at the seventys sixth annual convention meeting. He succeeds Henry C Warner of Dixon Illinois who chaired the session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Tex
Joseph G. Buch
Trenton
N. J
Tom Day
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Grand Lodge
Elks
Buch
Henry C. Warner
Dixon, Il
Also Mentioned on This Page
White House
Byrnes
Ds.c
McCalister
Bankhead
James A. Farley
the Big
The
War Department
Grenoble
le Petit Dauphinois
Switzerland
Gland
Satl
Bern
Brest
Bergen
Norway
Walther von Brachitsch
Ommander
the. Eo A
F.D.R
K. U
Windsors
Bahama
U. Ss
Carlson Corn Company
of Lawrence
Pendergast
Gugins
Argentina
New Jersey
Kansae
Peeteee
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!